Being late isn’t that big of an indicator, maybe they just find it hard to get up in the mornings? Going to bed during the work day, or no turning up at all, is really rather taking the pi$$.

Here is how the benefits is spread out (for 2011). The group blamed for benefits the most is the unemployed worker “too lazy to get a job”, but this is clearly a prejudiced view, not based on fact. With the state pension, pension credit, and winter fuel allowance, the pensions are by far the largest cause of our benefits bill. The “too lazy to work” worker is responsible for a part of Jobseeker’s allowance and a part of housing benefit, a fraction of the pensioners. Tax credits is probably one of the easiest to make savings in, though Labour would oppose it I’m sure!

…….and if all the Brits working abroad were forced to return to the UK the unemployment rate would be ?

Given many of the countries they went to, such as Aus, run a work permits scheme, it would probably be neutral or improve the employment figures!

As I said, it’s a helicopter carrier.

Therefore, I am correct 🙂

It’s only a 20k ton helo carrier, it’s nothing special.

What are you clearing the loft for? Conversion or just general tidying?

Happy birthing day 😀

Yep PPP………..now add the rest about the terrible way some people are passing from this world.

Unless of course you think that this is acceptable ?

Do I think it’s acceptable for terminally ill patients to die in a shorter, less painful way? If it’s want they want to, then they’re welcome to and the law should be changed to allow it. The current idea seems to be the best way whilst staying within the law.

@Lincoln 7
I thought the definition of DNR was quite commonly known. In most cases it’s a quite reasonable thing to have on there as resuscitating a terminally ill patient just acts to drag them back for a few days/weeks of extra suffering. Obviously this assumes the patient is informed and consents.

Hospitals ‘letting patients die to save money’
Hospitals may be depriving elderly patients of food and drink to hasten their deaths as part of cost-cutting measures to free up bed space, leading doctors warn.

The above is copied directly from this mornings Daily Torygraph…….

Now really…

Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses are placed on a “death pathway” to help end their lives every year. However, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph, six doctors warn that hospitals may be using the controversial scheme to reduce strain on hospital resources.

Supporters of the Liverpool Care Pathway, which allows medical staff to withhold fluid and drugs in a patient’s final days, claim it is the kindest way of letting them slip away. But the experts say in their letter that natural deaths are often freer of pain and distress.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9385674/Hospitals-letting-patients-die-to-save-money.html

@Merlin3945
Oh I agree 🙂

@tornado64
Indeed, it’s a customs union rather than a free trade area. There are many statistical arguments in favour of EU membership, I’m sure we’ve all heard them before, and I’m sure we are also all aware that they’ve had more spins than a medium sized DVD collection. Don’t leave the EU, Britain trades more with Belgium than Brazil… as if they think that is a situation we should maintain?!?!

@EU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo